Timely Snow

from Language Log:

Question to Radio Yerevan: Is it correct that Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev won a luxury car at the All-Union Championship in Moscow?

Answer: In principle, yes. But first of all it was not Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev, but Vassili Vassilievich Vassiliev; second, it was not at the All-Union Championship in Moscow, but at a Collective [...]

This would have been appealing as we waited to be screened in Berlin…

I think the Obama campaign could appropriate the University of Illinois’ slogan, “Always Thinking,” which apparently they no longer use…

This looks really promising as an application for coding video data.

I don’t remember this from the Pergamon:

UKTV: About UKTV: The world’s ten oldest jokes
The world’s oldest joke is revealed to be an ancient Sumerian proverb dating back to 1900 BC - Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap. The Sumerian version of this joke [...]